hauntedhaunt‧ed /ˈhɔːntɪd $ ˈhɒːn-/ ●●○ adjective 
a haunted house2haunted expression/look a very worried or frightened expression
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Billed as "America's most haunted house," the Myrtles Plantation is supposedly inhabited by 14 ghosts.
- Both John and his wife Susy are convinced the house is haunted.
- The locals say the villas are haunted.
- A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
- A young vicar and his wife, with matching haunted faces, wheel their beautiful chubby little daughter down the corridor.
- It's haunted, and I would keep well away from it.
- It is a haunted nowhere land.
- Its flame showed up her hollow cheeks, the haunted eyes.
- Shelley looked like a haunted man.
- The painting is another brooding, haunted work from a period with worldwide, cross- cultural appeal.
Longman Language Activatorwhen there are ghosts in a place
a place that is haunted has ghosts in it: · The locals say the villas are haunted.haunted house: · Both John and his wife Susy are convinced the house is haunted.· Billed as "America's most haunted house", the Myrtles Plantation is supposedly inhabited by 14 ghosts.
if a ghost haunts a place, it appears there often: · The ghost of the murdered prince still haunts the castle.be haunted by: · Legends say the building is haunted by ghosts.
informal a place that is spooky feels strange and makes you feel that there are ghosts there: · Let's get out of here, this place is really spooky!· a spooky castle· He lived in kind of a spooky place at the end of a long dirt road.
to remember something very clearly · "Do you remember a guy called Casey?" "Sure, I remember him well."· It was a long, long time ago, but I remember it vividly.· What she remembered most vividly was the hopelessly sad expression in his eyes. remember something all too well/vividly (=remember something that you would prefer to forget) · These men remember all too well the horrors of the Korean War.
to remember the details about something extremely clearly, especially when it is not something that would usually stay in someone's memory: distinctly remember something: · I distinctly remember her dress. It was blue with a red belt.distinctly remember doing something: · I distinctly remember being told that my father was away on a long business trip.distinctly remember somebody doing something: · I distinctly remember him leaving the room at about 8.00 p.m.
if something is fresh in your mind , you remember it very clearly because it happened very recently or because it had a great effect on you: · The day war was declared is still fresh in my mind.· She wrote down the details of their conversation while they were still fresh in her mind.with something fresh in your mind: · It was going to be difficult forming a new relationship with the memory of Marian still fresh in his mind.
to remember clearly the sight, sound, feel etc of something: · I can still see his face when I told him I wanted a divorce.· I can still hear my mother even now, singing away in the kitchen.· The next morning, on his way to the office, he could still feel the touch of her lips on his.
especially spoken use this to say that you will remember something for a long time because it was very shocking, very enjoyable, very frightening etc: · I'll never forget the sight of him lying there in the hospital.· "I'm going to teach you a lesson you'll never forget," said father grimly.I'll never forget the first time/the day/the night etc: · I'll never forget the first time I ate sushi.· I'll never forget the day Linda told us she was gay.I will never forget how/what/who etc: · I'll never forget how he comforted me after my son died.
to remember something that happened a long time in the past so clearly that it seems to have happened very recently, especially because it had a great effect on you: · I remember sitting at that table and listening to him speak as if it were yesterday.· She remembers her husband being shot as if it were yesterday.
to clearly remember something, especially an experience from the past, by imagining that you are doing it again now: · In my dreams, I often relived my fears and thought I was being attacked.· It's about a woman who is forced to relive her past when she discovers her long-lost brother.· I have relived that game many times and I still don't know how I missed the goal.
if something such as an experience or event stays with you, you remember it for a very long time because it has such a great effect on you: · When a loved one dies, it stays with you - it doesn't just go away.stay with someone for a long time/for the rest of their life: · The memory of the incident stayed with him for a long time.· Growing up in the countryside, she developed a passion for horses that stayed with her for the rest of her life.
if an experience or event etc sticks in your mind , it is very difficult to forget: · That reminds me of another incident that sticks in my mind.· One picture of a young child especially stuck in my mind.· A trivial incident, perhaps, but one that has stuck in my mind.
if you are haunted by something, especially something that you are worried about or afraid of, you find it extremely difficult to forget it so you are always thinking about it: · She was still haunted by what happened in Barcelona, although she had left twenty years earlier.· All his life, Whitman was haunted by a sense of loss and loneliness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a haunted houseCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a haunted house (=be unable to forget something unhappy)· He is haunted by memories of his unhappy childhood.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1a haunted building is believed to be visited regularly by the soul of a dead person: - A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
- It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.
a haunted house2haunted expression/look a very worried or frightened expression